January 6, 2026

I’m typing this on my favorite laptop of all time. And I’ve used a lot of laptops. It’s a Lenovo Thinkpad. It looks just like a Thinkpad – matte black on the outside, lots of ports, best-in-class keyboard, same as it ever was. This is probably the 10th or 12th Thinkpad that I’ve owned and…

July 8, 2025

Microsoft added a setting to Outlook to open web links in the Edge browser, even if you’ve set Chrome as your default browser. This is not a recent change. You may have already dealt with it. I still run into it when I set up new computers, and I hear about it from people who…

March 4, 2025

In the last article I talked about AI and searching for stuff in big companies. Employees will be able to use AI to get answers drawn from all the different places that information is stored – files, databases, email and calendars, Teams chats, all the rest. The AI will only get information that you have…

February 11, 2025

Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are irrelevant or out of context. I’m going to briefly describe some of the AI updates from the…